@Murphy:
Well… I just figured out how to fire a missile… and you’re all jerks for telling me to read the manual instead of taking a moment to help me. It would have taken less than 2 minutes of anyone’s time to walk me through it to discover the problem. But no… hot head armchair pilot-wanna-be’s claim this is a forum for help and we’re a community that contributes and a whole lot of other self-righteous horse$1it.
The fact is, only about one in ten of the members here actually want to help… You know who you are… and I say Thank you for providing what help you can.
My problem had nothing to do with reading the manual…. I could have memorized the manual word for word and it still would not have fixed my problem.
Somehow, when I first loaded the game and was poking around seeing what’s what, (or maybe it wasn’t my fault, I don’t know), but somehow within the settings and keyfile (or whatever its called) the space bar was no longer assigned as the fire button. Best I could tell, there was no fire button…
Now… had someone taken just a couple minutes to type out some quick and dirty directions just to get a missile to leave the rail, the problem would have been discovered quite quickly…
Funny how most, not all, but most of you will spend your “precious” time to write a long berating argument about how I need to learn this or that. read the manual, read the manual… they’re telling you to read the manual for a reason… but you won’t take a couple minutes to check to see if that really is the problem.
The behavior I have seen in this forum does not lend one to believe this a “community here to help and learn” and enjoy the game… Its more like a cult where outsiders aren’t welcome until they’ve somehow earned some badge of acceptance… Notice I didn’t say honor because the behavior and attitudes I have experienced here are certainly not honorable… they’re childish, high-strung, and selfish.
The fact that this forum has a feature where users can thank another user for a post, and the fact that such feature is used much more commonly to show a unionized or gang member type of solidarity rather than its true intention to show appreciation, is in itself an indication of the common blue-collar behavior characteristics and attitudes of the members. (not all, but most)….
And to think one of the moderators of this forum changed the subject line of my post… Images of the southern end of a donkey come to mind.
A few point have to be made again, apparently.
First and foremost : calling names, questionning moderators and insulting them is out of line. And since this is not the first time the moderator team has to deal with you, you get to enjoy some free time off the forum.
Then :
Are manuals perfect : Probably not, and that is mostly due to the fact that BMS builds on a ton of previous Falcon versions.
Still, people did advise you to check the BMS-Dash1, the BMS Manual.
Mower suggested the F4 Manual + F4toBMS conversion guide, a combo that works perfectly good.
Krause’s tutorials on video have been mentionned as well.
As for keyboard controls : people suggested to bind HOTAS controls as the only essential thing, the rest being done in the pit. Did you do that yet ?
And as far as setting goes…. a bit of self education and playing around never killed anybody.
Do people want to help ? Yes they do. Speaking of the BMS team, why do we even have a public forum, if we did not want to help users.
But barging in, saying “I want to shoot gun and fire missiles”, when BMS is clearly a study sim, and getting upset when people tell you you will have to do some homework beforehand, that has a tendency to deter help, weirdly enough.
Oh, and if you think firing a Sidewinder was hard… try to land in a crosswind or do a refuel.
Last time I try to argue with you.
